1810 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. , 
the last session in order to meet the additional expense occasioned by the increase in 
the amount of exchanges handled and by the establishment of agencies at Vienna 
and Budapest. It is still desired to improve the quality of the ocean service by turn- 
ing more of the business of forwarding over to the lines of faster steamers, and it is 
considered that the benefits to be derived from the more prompt interchange of pub- 
lications will fully warrant the extra cost involved. 
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES—APPROPRIATIONS. 
June 4, 1897. 
Sundry civil act for 1898. 
For expenses of the system of International Exchanges between the 
United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary 
employees, $19,000. 
(Stat., XXX, 22.) 
Geological Survey: For the purchase of necessary books for the 
library, and the payment for the transmission of public documents 
through the Smithsonian exchange, $2,000. 
(Stat., XXX, 37.) 
War Department: For the transportation of reports and maps to 
foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, $100. 
(Stat., XXX, 49.) 
July 19, 1897. 
Deficiency act for 1897, ete. 
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury 
on account of the appropriation ‘* International exchanges, Smith- 
sonian Institution,” for the fiscal year 1896, $1.79. 
(Stat., XXX, 115.) 
Geological Survey: For the payment for the transmission of public 
documents through the Smithsonian exchange, $2,230.60. 
(Stat., XXX, 127.) 
January 28, 1898. 
Urgent deficiency act for 1898, ete. 
Geological Survey: For the payment forthe transmission of public 
documents through the Smithsonian exchange, $2,319.25. 
(Stat., XXX, 239.) 
March 15, 1898. 
Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1899. 
Library of Congress: For expenses of exchanging public documents 
for the publications of foreign governments, $1,500. 
(Stat., XXX, 284.) 
Naval Observatory: For repairs [ete.], freight (including transmis- 
sion of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign 
postage, and expressage [ete. ], $2,500. 
(Stat., XXX, 303.) 
Patent Office: For purchase of professional and scientific books and 
